Category Archives: food

Total snow?  Two inches.  Rain, wind and icy roads.  Further north totals exceeded 10″. And we of course stayed home.  There was football.  There was food.  Why go anywhere? Banjo Man made a pot of Texas-style pinto beans, I put … Continue reading →

I unearthed my container of cookie cutters last week. Oh, the memories! Most I inherited from my grandmother and all of them had been used many, many times when the children were growing up. I had the urge–after thirty-plus years–to … Continue reading →

Daughter Nancy had a tonsillectomy Tuesday morning.  I stayed with her in the pre-op area until the nurses wheeled her into the operating room and then I roamed the halls of the hospital looking for a cup of coffee. Thank … Continue reading →

Next year I am buying the gravy and I am not going to make homemade dressing.  No more oven-toasted Italian bread cubes for me!  I’m returning to bags of Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix and calling it good. Why, you ask? … Continue reading →

Banjo Man once told me he had 40 first cousins.  I found that hard to comprehend.  My side of the family is woefully short of relatives, but a second cousin–on my mother’s side– surfaced in Austin about three years ago … Continue reading →

This was the view from our table at Champlin’s, in Galilee, on Sunday afternoon. We decided to take a drive to the fishing village and eat fish ‘n chips while watching the boats come into Salt Pond from the ocean. … Continue reading →

Frost on the pumpkins this morning! It is 35 degrees and all of a sudden winter is breathing down our necks.  Oh, my goodness. Are we ready?  Getting there.  Sort of. Last night Banjo Man defrosted a bag of thickly-sliced … Continue reading →